• Poll: Only 76% of Republicans want Trump reelected in 2020
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https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_US_111418/ West Long Branch, NJ – Nearly 6-in-10 Americans say they would like to see someone other than Donald Trump elected president in 2020, while his job approval rating continues to hover in the mid-40s.  With the midterm election bringing a change in House leadership, most Americans would like the new Congress to keep Trump in check, but few support outright impeachment. The latest national Monmouth University Poll also finds continued support for protecting the special counsel in the Russia investigation. Other poll results show that key congressional leaders lack support for continuing in their respective positions. The end of the 2018 midterm kicks off the 2020 presidential contest, and the president doesn’t start off with a strong base of support.  Just 36% of Americans feel Trump should be re- elected while nearly 6-in-10 (59%) say it is time to have someone else in office. Among registered voters, the result stands at 37% who support re-election and 58% who prefer a new president. Those who want to see someone new in the Oval Office in 2020 include 92% of Democrats, 59% of independents, and a small but not trivial 16% of Republicans. “It’s interesting that the number of Americans who feel Trump deserves re-election is actually smaller than the number who give him a positive job rating. It seems that some Americans are okay with Trump as president now but feel that four years might be enough,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. A majority (52%) of the public say that keeping Trump in check should be a major priority for the new Congress and another 20% say it should be a minor priority. Only 25% say that Congress should not prioritize being a check on the president in the coming term.  Even most Republicans (54%) join the vast majority of Democrats (92%) and independents (68%) in saying that keeping Trump in check should be at least a minor priority of the new Congress. Two of the most visible leaders of the congressional parties continue to get fairly weak grades from the American public. Nancy Pelosi earns a 17% approve and 38% disapprove rating for her job as House Minority Leader, with 45% having no opinion.  Mitch McConnell earns a 15% approve and 28% disapprove rating for his job as Senate Majority Leader, with 57% having no opinion. These ratings are in line with the results of prior Monmouth polls taken over the last year and a half.
He has 89% approval among Republicans
Those who want to see someone new in the Oval Office in 2020 include 92% of Democrats Who the hell are the 8% of Democrats who want Trump to be re-elected?
West Virginians.
If you didn't include "only" in the headline, it would have seemed a lot more somber. Which it is.
Why is the thread title so niche? I think it's more important that 59% of Americans don't want him reelected.
I don't know why I didn't include the overall numbers, I think I was thinking about it initially.
People who want to seize the means of production.
This implies the public will have a choice in the matter
We could probably look at Bush's numbers and find upper 90% from the Republicans to have him re-elected. Reminder that post-9/11 Bush was a bit more popular than mid-recession and "oops Lehman Brothers just went Chapter 11" 2008 Bush. Trump isn't popular. As someone who was brought up in a more conservative environment, my parents have said that: "we like paying less to the government", "we want a candidate that's incredibly favorable for gun rights (with my mother wanting some reasonable gun control). Over time, they've revealed that they also respect the implementation of Planned Parenthood and find combating abortion rights both wasted time and a harm to those in a difficult economic situation. The ACA is a big problem for them because it's killed the desire to compete where we live and we only had one option as of 9 months ago. To repeat what I've said previously, the upcoming generation of Republicans only care about the economic issues and gun rights. They're losing support from potential rising members and that's their fault. But Trump is only the option for the family if no other Republicans push him out (and McCain's down for the count and Kasich probably won't, so fat chance). The last hope is Warner, Kaine, Biden, or Holder run for the office and win.
That's just the narrative apologists, sympathizers, and liberals (but I repeat myself) push when they want to insist that the GOP isn't a cabal of crypto-fascist white supremacists in a race to see what they can still loot from the American people en route to martial law and ethnic cleansing. Trump is what every Republican politician, pundit, and voter have always wanted and the "oh no they really can't stand him they're just putting up with him until they can get rid of him - I don't like him either!" bit is a shameless, transparent diversion.
In other words, the pragmatists. The ones who like his awful agenda, but hate that he's fucking torpedoing it with his incompetence. They approve of his policies, but they don't approve of the man himself, in no small part because they fear he will lose the election if he runs again.
Reason it’s still so high is that they know if Trump isn’t re-elected, it means a Democrat will become President, and that’s the absolute worst thing any of them can imagine happening to the country besides a second 9/11 or massive refugee influx.
I guess that's why it's almost heaven and not fully heaven.
I personally know a lot of Republicans that don't particularly like Trump but they won't vote for a Democrat no matter what.
"I don't like that the coffee shop I go to literally serves a hot load of shit in a cup, but I don't want to go to another"
"But what if you voted for a not-shitty Republican, instead?" Republicans: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132319/589ea4d5-c40a-432f-aee8-9391d12385a8/eEXNWGL2.jpg
The non-shitty Republicans get primaried out.
Pretty sure non-shitty Republicans are referred to as RINOs anyway...
At this point I genuinely believe if Hitler ran on the Republican ticket over half the party would vote for him.
Those either became Libertarians or were purged for being "tea party" folk.
Er, aren't the Tea Party basically the forerunners of what the GOP has currently become? It's been awhile since I last heard of them so I could be misremembering some details but I could have sworn they split from the main GOP because they were too shitty for even the GOP at the time.
Talking more about the RINO-type. Before the radicalization leading up to the 2010 midterm. Before that they were basically proto-Occupy in certain respects.
That would still be 76% too many on the trumpublican side.
It's so bizarre. I'm friends with a conservative on Facebook (who just added me out of the blue because I commended on something, I guess), and they're nice enough, but during the primaries she was talking about how she despised Trump, and that she was more interested in Bernie Sanders' ideas. Now she's one of those "fake news" and "voter fraud in Florida" types.
The Tea Party are Koch sponsored. They're a manufactured grass roots campaign. Anyone who fell for their bullshit is basically complicit with the path the GOP has gone down.
Just to clarify those Democrats that want Trump re-elected likely are from West Virgnia, there's more Democrats then Republicans in the state, but 1/3 of them voted for Trump in 2016. Kentucky has more registered Democrats then Republicans too, holdovers from when poor mine workers and rural people were steadfast Democrats.
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